Folks on Twitter are encouraging people to post photos of themselves when they were 20 years old. Here’s my passport photo from then —
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Thomas Szasz Born 100 Years Ago Today
Thomas Szasz, the great Hungarian-American champion of freedom, was born 100 years ago today. Tom was one of the great heroes of liberty of the modern era. Scholar Sheldon Richman aptly labeled Szasz “the most underappreciated libertarian.” His work had severed the chains on vast numbers of people wrongfully incarcerated because officialdom did not approve […]
FDR, Demagogue Champion of Leviathan and War
Libertarian Institute, April 13, 2020 FDR, Demagogue Champion of Leviathan and War by Jim Bovard | Sunday was the 75th anniversary of the death of Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt was sainted by the media even before he died in 1945. CNN last week trumpeted FDR as “the wartime president who Trump should learn from.” A 2019 […]
Complying with White House Orders for a Pandemic Mask
White House sez wear a mask, I wear a mask. But I don’t expect to get hired as a mask consultant. For the record: I’ve been wearing masks for several weeks. In my March 24 Daily Caller oped on Pandemic Security Theater, I wrote: “Before granting politicians any more powers, we should recognize how the […]
Bogus Fears Can Produce Real Servitude
Bogus fears can produce real servitude. We cannot permit politicians to exploit the pandemic to seize vast new power in perpetuity. COVID-19 is a real threat but so too is Leviathan.
MP3 FDA Debacles and Press Pratfalls – Florida Radio with David Gornoski
David Gornoski, a pro-freedom radio host and writer in Orlando, and I had fun smacking the FDA around on his “Neighbor’s Choice” show Wednesday night on IHEARTRADIO WFLA 93.1 FM, 94.1 FM, and 540 AM on NewsRadio Orlando. David brings plenty of skepticism to anything the government does and that is very timely for the […]
It’s Time to Track the FDA Death Toll
Mises Institute, April 1, 2020 It’s Time to Track the FDA’s Death Toll by James Bovard The Food and Drug Administration helped turn the coronavirus from a deadly peril into a national catastrophe. Long after foreign nations had been ravaged and many cases had been detected in America, the FDA continued blocking private testing. The […]
Trotsky's Pickaxe
They did give us 1933.
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Jim
There are still plenty of Germans who still highly
Shinmen Takezo
The censorship network in Germany is as pervasive,
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